Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City meeting. Among those present besides Bobby and Baldwin were Negro Singers Lena Horne and Harry Belafonte, Playwright Lorraine (A Raisin in the Sun) Hansberry, Psychologist Kenneth Clark. Bobby went into the meeting under the illusion that Negroes feel gratitude toward the Administration. What he encountered was a shouting, finger-shaking barrage of anger, disappointment and impatience. Afterwards, one participant said the meeting was a "flop," another called it "tragic." Said Baldwin: "Bobby Kennedy was a little surprised at the depth of Negro feeling. We were a little shocked at the extent of his naivet...
...stood behind the door with a rifle. If memory serves correctly, next to him, also with a rifle, stood his white neighbor and friend. The mob came-perhaps 50 or more. A woman neighbor from a block and a half down the street stopped them and, wagging her finger under the leader's nose, said, "Don't you dare bother that colored family down the street, or you are going to have trouble with all of us." Their answer: "No, we're going to the West Side to get some niggers." As they approached our house...
Today more than 100,000 Americans are wearing a lifesaving bracelet designed to prevent such accidents. It was made originally for Linda Collins of Turlock, Calif., who was so hypersensitive to tetanus antitoxin serum that the tiny amount used in a scratch test* after she cut her finger one day in 1956 made her collapse in convulsions. Her father, Surgeon Marion Collins, figured that a full dose of antitoxin would have killed Linda; he decided that for future protection his daughter should wear a dog tag proclaiming her allergy. Linda talked him into making the tag into a silver bracelet...
...artists developed their own canons for the image. Since Buddha was more than human, they did not follow human anatomy but devised a complex series of mathematical formulas for each part of Buddha's body. In the case of life-size Buddhas, for example, they authorized so many finger-widths from hairline to eyebrows, so many more from brows to nose, so many from nose to chin. In some areas, Buddha's features were made to resemble some perfect form in nature. His head had to be a perfect oval like the egg, his eyes were...
...ELLEN FINGER New York City Blithe Spirit...